Final year students studying modules in visual anthropology have the opportunity to specialise in video or photography for their final assessment.
For students specialising in photography the module explores different ways of using photography in anthropological research, with the students learning new techniques every week and then putting them to practice in a final photographic project. The final projects are open for the students to use photography in whichever way they deem most appropriate to explore an anthropological question of their choice – from the changing consumption patterns of local food, to the performance of gender and ethnicity, to social connections between animals and humans.
Prizes considered the overall anthropological content of the photographic project, as well as considering the aesthetic presentation of the project and individual photographs within it.
Prize Winners
Best Overall set of photographs: Louis Mills (for his combination of art and photography in his project ‘Art and Anthropology: How a Painter Challenges Ethnocentrism’
Best Anthropological Context: a joint prize for Rowan Twine for her project ‘From Sea to Stomach’ and Danae Elston-Alphas for her project ‘Xentia: A Study of Cypriot Diaspora and Visual Representation’
Some of the photographs from this module are available to view on Flickr.